California Institute of Technology faculty

American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)

J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in overseeing the development of the first nuclear weapons.

American scientist (1901–1994)

American physicist (1868–1953)

American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)

American physicist (1929–2019)

American physicist

American biologist (1866–1945)

Nobel prize winning US scientist and engineer (born 1956)

German nuclear physicist and Noble Prize in Physics

Egyptian chemist

American nuclear physicist (1911-1995)

American physicist (born 1940)

Seismologist and mathematician

American biologist and Nobel laureate (1938–2025)

American physicist

biophysicist (1906–1981)

Nobel prize winning American chemist (1942-2021)

American geneticist (1903-1989)

Italian-born American virologist (1914-2012)

American physicist

American scientist (born 1933)

Canadian chemist

Swiss astronomer who posited dark matter (1898–1974)

American neuroscientist

American biologist (1918–2004)

American planetary astronomer

American economist

Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist (1881–1963)

American biologist

American engineer and computer scientist

American astronomer (1868-1938)

American computer scientist and Internet pioneer

Chinese rocket scientist (1911-2009)

mathematician (1906–1995)

American physicist (1881–1948)

Scottish American mathematician and science fiction author (1883-1960)

Russian-American physicist (1896-1966)

American astronaut

American physicist, author and screenwriter

American geneticist (1921–2007)

American theoretical cosmologist

American theoretical physicist

American physicist and astronomer (1898–1973)

American physicist (1934–2005)

American astronomer (1912–2003)

American rocket engineer (1914–1952)

American chemist

American nuclear physicist (1905–2004)

Dutch politician and scientist (born 1957)

American astronomer

American mathematician and physicist (1903–1961)

American chemist (1900–2004)

American seismologist (1899–1968)

American mathematician

American computer scientist (born 1934)

American chemist (born 1935)

American geologist and planetary scientist (1931-2013)

British physicist (1931-2017)

Japanese seismologist